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Editor-in-Chief

Nicholas Thompson

Chief Business Officer

Chris Mitchell

It is the essential source of information and ideas that make sense of a world in constant transformation. The WIRED conversation illuminates how technology is changing every aspect of our lives—from culture to business, science to design. The breakthroughs and innovations that we uncover lead to new ways of thinking, new connections, and new industries. WIRED reaches more than 30 million people each month through WIRED.com, our digital edition, the magazine, social media, and live events.

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Nicholas Thompson

Editor-in-Chief

Nicholas Thompson was named editor-in-chief of WIRED in 2017.

Prior to joining WIRED, Thompson served as editor of NewYorker.com from 2012 to 2017, during which time monthly readership increased by 700 percent. He also oversaw the redesign of the website, the launch of The New Yorker Today app, and the introduction of an online paywall, which contributed to a 130 percent increase in annual subscriptions.

Before The New Yorker, Thompson was a senior editor at WIRED, where he assigned and edited the feature story “The Great Escape,” which was the basis for the Oscar-winning film Argo.

During his career, Thompson has written about politics, technology, and law for numerous publications. In 2009, his book “The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War” was published to critical acclaim.

Thompson is also a contributor for CBS News and regularly appears on CBS This Morning and CBSN. He is a cofounder of The Atavist, a National Magazine Award–winning digital publication.

Thompson is a senior fellow in the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Young Leaders Council on the National Committee on American Foreign Policy. He was a United States Truman Scholar and graduated from Stanford University.

Chris Mitchell

Chief Business Officer

Chris Mitchell is the chief business officer of The Culture Division, which includes Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, WIRED, Teen Vogue, Pitchfork, Ars Technica and Them. In addition to overseeing this division of brands, he manages revenue for the auto, technology, finance, luxury, spirits and entertainment categories across Condé Nast.

Mitchell most recently served as publisher and chief revenue officer of Vanity Fair, a role he held since September 2014. In 2016, he was named Condé Nast’s CRO of the Year for exceeding the company’s aggressive digital growth goals by growing Vanity Fair’s digital advertising revenue by 71% and video revenue by 41% over the previous year.

Mitchell was previously vice president and publisher of GQ, which he drove to record revenue levels in 2013.

Since 2001, Mitchell also has served as vice president and publisher of Condé Nast Traveler, WIRED and Details, and associate publisher of The New Yorker.

Outside of Condé Nast, Mitchell launched and served as publisher of One, an independent digital and print media company. He also was advertising director of WIRED prior to its purchase by Condé Nast in 1998.

Mitchell received an M.A. in publishing from New York University and a B.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley.

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